Centre de recherche en écologie expérimentale et prédictive - Ecotron IleDeFrance (CEREEP)

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The CEREEP - Ecotron IleDeFrance service unit, set up on 1 January 2008 by the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the CNRS, is a service unit dedicated to experimental research in ecology, as well as education and training. Its development took place as part of a national plan to promote experimental ecology research facilities coordinated by the CNRS Ecology and Environment Institute (INEE).

PLANAQUA is a national experimental platform in aquatic ecology. It focuses on the experimental ecological study of continental aquatic systems.

Ecosystems reproducing the savanna of Arizona are settled in six environmental rooms of the CEREEP, to study them to understand the effects due to the climate change.

CEREEP-Ecotron

This greenhouse is dedicated to pollination experiments.

Experimental ponds dedicated to the studie of the aquatic ecosystems

The centre's mission is to promote major experimental and observational research programmes on the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in terrestrial and aquatic environments.

Scientists are studying the maintenance of melanin color variation, as well as parental and grandparental effects on the urban pigeon.

In these enclosures the impact of different parameters such as density, sex ratio, habitat quality, among others, on small animal populations such as the viviparous lizard is studied. The CEREEP (Centre de recherche en écologie expérimentale et prédictive) aims to promote major experimental and observational research programmes on the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in terrestrial and aquatic environments.

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